The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-03
MINOR MENTION.

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The population Of Canada is estimated at
s,0O0,0OO
The value Of property annually destroyed
throughout the world Is put ut 30! 6I),OOJ.
The Young MEMS Christian association OF
Los Angeles, Cal. Is to build II s5J, 600 hall.
Eight arlstocrailc dogs III OF the govt are at
Treport for treatment says The boston Jonrnd.
It cost the state Of Kentucky $1,000 to con-
vie, one OF the Morchcad tribe OF cut threats.
Mrs. J. McMullcn, Of Saugertes n. Y, Is
1903 wears OF age, but eau still cook an extreme
| ~ catablc dinner
| A brother In prayer-mcctlng In nechborine
town the other night prayed for the absent
"who were Frustrated on beds OF sickness and
sofas OF weness."
Slmkins (at Asbury park What rollcking
chap the parson Is when he gets into the
waierl SlmpkIns--Natura. Everything loses
its gravity Ia the water
did you ever" said one preacher to an
other, "stand at the door after the sermon
aud listen to what people said about 1t as
they passed outi" The other replied: 81 did
once,m a pause and sigh, but I'll never do
! so again"
During the past summer the night watch
! man and clerk of hotel at Sugar Hill, IN
the White Mountains, were both divinity stu.
dents and the scrub girl had been for five
years teacher In public school, aud speaks
French and Latin.
a Troy man claims to have invented a steam
engine without any steam chest piston ROD
or governor 1t will blow up some day, how.
ever, and the engineer will testify before the
coroner's jury chat he had just looked ut the
glass aud was sure that the boiler contained
two fun gauges of water.
An English yacbtsman In New York Is quite
sure that Burgess Is n very poor designer oi
yachts, aud that the Volunteer does not com
pare In looks with the Thistle or any Other
English cutter. Nevertheless, he writes TIE
London F1cii that he is afraid the Thistle viii
have hard work to win the cup.
In French village Sunday school, "Whal
Is God!n ~ gil 1t up, ms leu rcurc" "sucl
ignorance Is objectionable DO you know AT
least on what day our Lord diedW "Didr'l
even know he'd been sicltm "Whatm "Wcll
you SEE, can't afford TO take newspapers, anC
never hear nothing of what's going oul"
The following query recently appeared IN
The Boston JoWrltal unanswered: A clergy
mau received 500 from II bridegroom for the
Performance OF the marriage ceremony The
clergyman used most of the sum In charitable
deeds. VIII the recording angel credit The
good deeds to the bridegroom or to the clergy
man!
party of japanese have bought 400 acres
of land In the foothills near Campo Seco,
Calaveras county, California; aud they pro.
pose TO lrrlgatc through n mining ditch from
the Mokclumne river aud convert II into
tea farm. 1t is said that the Japanese have
experimental with tea In the vicinity and
proved a success.
During the past season 10000, 900 cuculn
beers have been picked in one factory at Fred
cricksburg Va. One acre will produce on M
average 100, 600 cucumbers, and they sell read
lily in the city at 50 cents per 1000. They are
usually picked when not more than an inch ~
an inch aud a half long. One person car
gather in 5000 in day.
Boodler McGariCle, when chief OF police ii
Chicago, personally prosecuted and sent 10
prison poor devil who stole a secondhand
pair Of shoes He said that the prevailing
spirit of dishonesty had got to receive de-
cIded setback and that Il terrible example
was needed. History repeats itself after
strange fashion.
Mrs. Gardner, the editor of the Carroll
(La.) Bdaner, has discovered In Cameron.
par sh on the coast, place In which there Is
no disorder, court without a criminal cast
on the docket, ami jail used only fer the
storage of rice. She attributes this won der.
full state OF affairs to the fact that Cameron is
! prohibition parish.
And now an Iowa man who has spent four
teen years upon the problem claims that he
has made an auger that will bore square
hoe His invention Is simply nm oscillatng
head with chisel edges and projecting lips,
which cut on the corners In advance OF the
| clIlscl The rest OF the machine Is an almost
exact counterpart Of the old style boring ma
| chine. II will cut II 2x4 mortlse in from four
to five minutes with perfect accuracy, that a
carpenter can not complete IN less that hat
an hour.
II is doubtful whether Mas Kitty O'Bricr
and Mr.. Crowley. the interesting chimpanzecs ol
Central park New York, will ever submit 10 Q
marriage ceremony. Miss O'Bricn is affection
ate enough but Crowley is rather hclle, aud
seems only inclined to play tricks on his llan'
Gee instead OF settling down to a regular old
fashioned courtship. Every day he coaxes
the talented Miss O'Brlen up to the bars of
the cage and then smothers her with II hand
full of sawdust She liked IT at first but now
she lies down and cries which greatly amuses
the ungentlemanly Mr.. Crowley.
A remarkable photograph is on exhibition
at Amsterdam, y. Y. II is group Of the
heads OF four young ladies. But II the picture
is placed across the room and locked at with
half CLOSED ewes for a few moments, n sirlk-